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Workshop am Donnerstag, den 24.09.2009, 9 – 12:30 Uhr

Freie Universität / FB Rechtswissenschaften, Eingang Van’t Hoff Str.8, 14195 Berlin 

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Neue Entwicklungen der Kriminalpolitik in den USA + Bewährungshilfe in den USA

Referenten: Judith Greene / Gary Hinzman (APPA)+ Prof. Mario Paparozzi

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Kerner

Winds of change: new developments in criminal justice politics in the USA

Over the last quarter of the 20^th Century the USA was caught in the grip of intense fear about urban crime and disorder. Public anxiety about a rising tide of street crime was exacerbated by lurid media depictions that created an impression that most crime was violent and that most people who were arrested and processed through our criminal justice system were desperate predators. A simple prescription for increased imprisonment became the primary response to the complex issues that underlie the problem of urban crime.

Many politicians exploited the public’s fears to gain votes with “tough on crime” campaign promises. U.S. incarceration rates had closely tracked those of other industrial democracies since the beginning of the Century, but once a “war on crime” was launched, our nation’s prison population levels began to spiral toward the sky. Overall prison population growth rates increased during the 1980s, and by the last decade of the Century the U.S. found itself adrift in the uncharted territory of mass incarceration.

After the turn of the Century, however, a number of factors, including falling crime rates and rising correctional costs, signaled a marked shift in crime policy toward a reexamination of the harsh laws and policies that led to towering incarceration rates. Concerns about the alarming degree of racial disparity in our prisons have increased, while worsening economic conditions continue to spur embrace of reforms designed to bring relief to budgetary shortfalls. It appears that addressing the problem of mass incarceration may no longer be a political “third rail.” Political support for sentencing reform is increasing, with states like Washington, Kansas, Michigan and New York leading the way. Reversing the tide of mass incarceration will not be easy, but the prevailing winds have at least somewhat shifted in the right direction over the past decade.

Judith Greene

is a criminal justice policy analyst and director of Justice Strategies.  She is currently a research associate for the Drug Policy Alliance and the Mississippi ACLU. 
From 1985 to 1993 she was Director of Court Programs at the Vera Institute of Justice, where she was responsible for planning and development of a variety of demonstration programs designed to improve the efficacy of both pretrial release and sentencing practices.  Subsequently she served as program director for the State-Centered Program of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, and as a research associate for the RAND Corporation, and a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota Law School.  In 1999 she received a Soros Senior Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Institute.

Ms. Greene’s articles on criminal sentencing issues, police practices, correctional policy and prison privatization have appeared in numerous publications, including The American Prospect, Corrections Today, Crime and Delinquency, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, The Federal Sentencing Reporter, The Index on Censorship, Judicature, The Justice Systems Journal, Overcrowded Times, Prison Legal News, The Rutgers Law Journal, and The Wake Forest Law Review. Her work has been cited in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as in hundreds of local newspapers across the nation.

She has presented papers for scores of organizations and conferences, including for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Open Society Institute, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the British Columbia Provincial Court Judicial Conference, the Freidrich Ebert Stiftung’s International Conference on Police Policy, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Economic Policy Institute conference on Privatization, the Minnesota Sentencing Commission, the Maryland Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy, and the Youth Law Center. She has presented legislative testimony on sentencing and corrections policy in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Texas.

Über die aktualle Entwicklung der Bewährungshilfe in den USA werden Gary Hinzman (Präsident der APPA, Iowa) und Prof. Marion Paparozzi (University of North Carolina at Pembroke) berichten. Gary Hinzman spricht auch am 25.09. in der Plenumsveranstaltung (Simultan-Übersetzung)

Gary Hinzman 
is the President of the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA). He was elected in 2005 to serve a two year term commencing July of 2007 until July of 2009. APPA is affiliated with the Council of States Government. As the President of APPA Hinzman also serves on the CSG Executive Board.
APPA is a national organization with over 35,000 members that represents the interests of the professional field in the USA and abroad. It works closely with the federal and state governments to develop innovative programs that can be transferred from one jurisdiction to another. In this lead role Hinzman has worked closely with other national organizations such as the Urban Institute of Washington, D.C., the PEW Charitable Trust, the Manhattan Institute of NYC, on groundbreaking innovations. APPA also works closely with other professional organizations such as International Chief’s Of Police Association, the National Association of Probation Executives, and the American Corrections Association. He is also a member of ICAP, NAPE, and ACA and was worked on several national projects with them. Hinzman has worked with many national think tanks whose works have been published extensively.

Mario A. Paparozzi, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
University of North Carolina at Pembroke

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